Join us on September 8th at 7 p.m. at the Clapp Memorial Library in Belchertown, MA, for a special presentation of the new book No To Nuclear: Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War, with author Linda Pentz Gunter. The climate crisis is very clearly upon us. The nuclear power industry [...]
The Clapp Memorial Library is hosting an Anime and Manga club for tweens and teens in grades 6-8! The club meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month from 4-5pm in the library’s Activity Room. During club meetings, we will watch 1-2 episodes of an anime, discuss manga, share artwork, eat snacks, and more! Registration [...]
Do you like browsing cookbooks and trying new recipes? In the Cookbook Club, we each make a recipe from a cookbook and bring it for everyone to try. Taste, enjoy, and chat with your new cookbook friends! The September cookbook is Eat yourself healthy by Jamie Oliver. Registration & confirmation required. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/GeC7X91ZfwSLNQkMA
Fall Foraging Walk, 4:30-5:30pm Gain greater food security by learning wild and feral edible and medicinal plants and fungi. On Wednesday, September 16 at 4:30pm using the Wallace Lake Sensory Trails, we will learn how to identify and prepare foods using common wild edibles that you can find near where you live. Join naturalist and [...]
All are invited to the The Friends of the Clapp Memorial Library Board Meeting in the Activity Room at 6:30pm. For information email friendsofclappmemoriallibrary@gmail.com http://www.friendsofclapplibrary.org/ The Friends of Clapp Memorial Library is a volunteer not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising monies to assist the Library beyond the ordinary scope of the Library’s budget to reach its [...]
Saturday, September 19: Upcycling Workshop 10-12pm Join Elena Wang, former sustainable fashion professor in an upcycling jam session! You’ll learn easy, no-sew upcycling tricks, including cropping, fabric painting, spray painting and dye techniques. Bring anything you rarely or never wear from your closet. Registration is not required but it helps us plan. Sign up here [...]
The Library will close at 4pm.
The Library will be closed during the Belchertown Fair
Mondays, 3PM - 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9 Learn computer basics or polish up your computer skills at the Clapp Memorial Library! This fall we’re partnering with Tech Foundry to offer a weekly series of computer basics classes and drop in tech-support on Mondays, September 28th-November 9th. There will be no class on October [...]
Clapp Memorial Library is offering a Stress Reduction Awareness course. The eight-week introductory course starts on Thursday, October 1 at 7 PM and runs every Thursday through November 19. The course is designed to teach and practice mindfulness-based skills. Mindfulness meditation skills teach us to be fully present in the moment and, when practiced regularly, [...]